Fashion

Last week reports surfaced that Prada Japan allegedly terminated workers they found unattractive, after ex-senior retail manager Rina Bovrisse filed a complaint against the label. On Saturday, after failing to reach a settlement with Prada Japan, Bovrisse told the Japan Times she had planned to collect more witnesses and file a lawsuit. Prada just issued thi

Kitsuné Maison, the musical minds behind some of the biggest acts of 2009 including La Roux, obviously weren’t happy with ridding you of all your money on music downloads, and look set to empty your wallet of even more cash with the opening of the new Kitsuné temporary clothes store on Omotesando in Tokyo.

Japanese-born F.I.T. alum Miho Aoki and Vietnamese-born Thuy Pham founded United Bamboo in 1998, making their New York runway debut for fall 2004. The pair employs innovative patterns, fabrics, and construction, like origami pleats, asymmetrical shapes, and architectural lines.

Milan-based French sportswear brand Moncler wants to get closer to the fashion-savvy young and gullible Japanese customers through a new tie-in with the popular and overpriced/overrated Japanese label Comme des Garcons, which is headed by the designer Rei Kawakubo

I Never Sleep Past Midnight - Vogue Nippon, November 2009

In japan pet are like children.. they wear clothes, and are considered like human.. they are so cute ^^
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Have you ever heard of Cram Jam Chest? Us neither. From the looks of their half-in-Japanese website, they make stuffed art. In any case, they’ve teamed up with Levi’s to make a series of puppies made out of denim for the Levi’s store in Shibuya, Japan. Is this a good way to recycle jeans? These denim doggies are mighty cute … but not sure we’d put down for a stuffed animal.

A Chinese model poses with a clothing partially made of chocolate during Chocolate Fashion Show as part of Salon du Chocolat in Shanghai, China Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.

Maison Hermes in Japan is experimenting with a shop front window art installation designed by Satoshi Asakawa. Each window shows a Hermès scarf apparently being blown about by the breath of a Japanese actress. The illusion is achieved by venting air from a small hole in the wall near the mouth in the printed image.

In a step toward hitting its ambitious earnings targets for 2020, the operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain reported a 49-percent jump in group operating profit for the latest quarter.

Fast Retailing Co. revised upward its forecasts for the year ending August 2010 to a group pretax profit of 126 billion yen ($1.36 billion) on sales of 820 billion yen, an all-time high.

We're still having fun here in Vegas, doing tourist-ey things with the kids like exploring interesting casinos and seeing what shows we want to take in. We're also in "power shopping" mode, hitting all the outlet malls and loading up on clothes, shoes and other things to take back home.

According to the fashion industry magazine WWD, the ultra-popular Japanese fashion brand Tsumori Chisato will be collaborating with French brand Petit Bateau on a Fall/Winter 2010 capsule collection for infants, children, and adults.

Eley Kishimoto, is a global British fashion and design company with headquarters in London, UK. Founded in the early 1990’s by Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto, the company is primarily known for its print design. The principle commercial activity of the company is womenswear fashion and accessories.

Tokyo’s most fashionable city girls have ventured into new territory, crouching in rice paddies to help make farms cool again – and now they can do it in style.

Shape enhancing, uplifting, body contouring men’s briefs from Japan.